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Keeping Patients Safe - Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses (Paperback)
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Keeping Patients Safe - Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses (Paperback)
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Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err
is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays
out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses'
working conditions and demands. Licensed nurses and unlicensed
nursing assistants are critical participants in our national effort
to protect patients from health care errors. The nature of the
activities nurses typically perform ? monitoring patients,
educating home caretakers, performing treatments, and rescuing
patients who are in crisis ? provides an indispensable resource in
detecting and remedying error-producing defects in the U.S. health
care system. During the past two decades, substantial changes have
been made in the organization and delivery of health care ? and
consequently in the job description and work environment of nurses.
As patients are increasingly cared for as outpatients, nurses in
hospitals and nursing homes deal with greater severity of illness.
Problems in management practices, employee deployment, work and
workspace design, and the basic safety culture of health care
organizations place patients at further risk. This newest edition
in the groundbreaking Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm series
discusses the key aspects of the work environment for nurses and
reviews the potential improvements in working conditions that are
likely to have an impact on patient safety. Table of Contents Front
Matter Executive Summary 1 Nursing: Inseparably Linked to Patient
Safety 2 A Framework for Building Patient Safety Defenses into
Nurses' Work Environments 3 Nurses Caring for Patients: Who They
Are, Where They Work, and What They Do 4 Transformational
Leadership and Evidence-Based Management 5 Maximizing Workforce
Capability 6 Work and Workspace Design to Prevent and Mitigate
Errors 7 Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Safety 8
Implementation Considerations and Needed Research Appendix A:
Committee Membership and Study Approach Appendix B:
Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Team Functioning, and Patient
Safety Appendix C: Work Hour Regulation in Safety-Sensitive
Industries Index
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